Starting to look more and more like it might work over a full 162.

I don’t know what it is about the Brewers that turns opposing defenses into confused Sims who can’t get out of a room but I’ll take it

After this weekend there are 74 plaques on the Brewers' Wall of Honor and seven spaces reserved, but those numbers won't stay the same for long. My latest for Shepherd Express looks at the next candidates to qualify, including one that might be there in a month: shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

Little known fact: The "Ft." in "Ft. Wayne" actually stands for "Fountains of." youtu.be/dZLfasMPOU4?...

Once every few weeks I go see Eric with @cooltabletrivia.bsky.social and without fail I end up singing this for days afterward. youtu.be/vi7Lx-AZUIM?...

Is John Kruk sober and/or ok?

"We've got a close game in the eighth inning, what do you want to talk about?" "Can we dig up old video of fights?"

This is your annual reminder that there are a wide array of compliant responses to a demand to "make some noise."

Umpire Austin Jones called out Miguel Vargas on a pitch that missed inside. Vargas challenged and the call was overturned. The next pitch, he hit a home run. Batters have reached base 43 times this season after successfully overturning a called strike 3.

I hope the "Brewers bunt a lot, win" narrative doesn't overshadow the fact that the pitching allowed two runs over two games. *That* is why they won.

Brice Turang's current 22-game on base streak (stretching back to 2025) is tied for the 70th longest in Brewers history. His 16-game streak to start the 2026 season is now in the top ten, the longest since Luis Urias had 17 in 2022.

You spend all winter without baseball and that's just long enough to forget what it's like to watch a team struggle to hit objectively bad pitching.

I'm not sure if it'll work over a full 162, but "wait and see if opponents forget how to play baseball" is a more successful strategy than I would have expected.

@Ken_Rosenthal tweeted Oh man. RIP Scrap Iron. 💬 @Brewers The Brewers are saddened to learn of the passing of Phil Garner https://t.co/NLHqhxhm2P

Now that these jerseys are about to be Wisc0-2 I'm willing to accept more arguments against them.

I don't always like the way the Brewers do it and i've taken some lumps for saying so, but when I was a young fan in the 90's it would've been *unfathomable* to not only have multiple Brewers entries in a national notes column, but also to go out of one's way to promote that.

Let’s try this again without the typo: Looking like tomorrow's FanGraphs Sunday Notes column will be heavy on Milwaukee Brewers content. A lot of other stuff, certainly, but definitely a bunch of Brewers.

Unrelated: Nearly everyone i've seen offer and opinion on the Wisco jerseys could use a moment to pause, look in the mirror and ask, "Is this bad or is it just not marketed to me in particular?"

The suspense is palpable this afternoon as the Marlins expand on their lead over the Reds in the sixth inning. If this result holds the Brewers will return to sole possession of first in the NL Central.

Count your blessings, Brewers fans. It's a lot more fun to write the "here's the math on the Brewers' hot start" piece, like I did for Shepherd Express this week, then it is to have to write pieces like this.

So we've established that beer in the dugout is not ok but crushing a mid-inning Uncrustable is encouraged. We're getting ever closer to knowing *exactly* where the line is.

A quick foray into college basketball: If UConn wins tonight then Marquette (KenPom #83) will become the lowest ranked team with a win over the eventual national champions since Houston (#132) beat UConn on December 31, 2013.

This is one of the weirder things I've stumbled across while digging for data: In 2005 every MLB team won at least two but no more than four of their first six games.

Does Jake Bauers have a foot on the bag? The story of the series.

If it seemed like Yandy Diaz really took his time on thay homer trot it's because he did. I have the trot at 31.85 seconds. (Cc @larrygranillo.bsky.social)

I haven't pulled up the numbers but you'd have to think the Brewers threw a lot of those pitches to the White Sox.

Just heard someone say they're going to "Beautiful Orlando" and it made me wonder if I've been going to the wrong one all this time.

"How did he mistakenly see something that didn't occur" is... well, I kind of know the answer to that, from experience as a fallible human. It's more "how did his risk-assessment go so haywire that he went way out on a limb to make a career-defining mistake for no reason?"

Just an unbelievably strange call. Nobody was pointing at the base, nobody was asking him to make this call. He just put a huge, unnecessary bet on an super unusual thing having occurred. Bizarre. I can't make it make any sense.

CB Bucknor has a new call for his Greatest Hits compilation.

Just saying, teams with former Timber Rattlers managers on their coaching staffs went 2-0 today. All other teams will go a combined 10-12.

One of the challenges of the team-produced broadcast era is going to be keeping these games from feeling like an infomercial. They've got some work to do on that front.

Is streaming going to rob us of one of sports social media's best phenomena, our ability to watch a game together? If our collective feeds are multiple minutes ahead/behind then we're going to constantly spoil things for each other.

My Peacock feed is so far behind that I'm getting scoring updates on this game before first pitch on my end.

Prince Fielder 1B Debut: 2005 - Retired: 2016 TEX - MIL - DET

FWIW, Chourio's WBC HBP might be what's causing him to miss time but there's a reasonable case to be made that he was *more* likely to get hit by some random A-baller in Cactus League play than in the WBC.

The Brewers have already given us a reminder that the Opening Day roster is only the roster for one day. I was working on a piece wondering if Jake Bauers was redundant, and now he's starting.

With the NL Central field seemingly improving around them, April and May might be more important for the Brewers than it's been in recent years. My latest for Shepherd Express wonders if that changes their roster management opportunities:

Jim Gantner 2B-3B Debut: 1976 - Retired: 1992 MIL

It's fascinating to me that people are talking about Charles Barkley's suit and not his outdated comment that football and men's basketball are the only college sports that make money.

Here's @bykylelobner.bsky.social's annual analysis of the #Brewers schedule broken down by day of the week frequency, always an interesting read shepherdexpress.com/sports/brewe...

Someone put a doorbell and a barking dog in the first two commercials of March Madness and I want to shake them.

Across America people are waking up and tuning in to see Ohtani and Japan says, "We have Ohtani at home."

If an indy baller comes out if the bullpen and K's a big leaguer on three pitches someone has to offer him a contract, right?

Brandon Sproat's tenure as the Brewers' hardest thrower this spring (99.8 mph) lasted exactly one Misiorowski pitch (99.9 mph).

This take is going to annoy some folks. There are plenty of "What do fans think about (subject)?" questions that are interesting or useful, but "What do fans think about the health of the league?" isn't one of them.

Ron Robinson Pitcher Debut: 1984 - Retired: 1992 CIN - MIL

It'd be cool for everyone involved if the Brewers brought someone who knows these minor leaguers down to tell us about them on broadcasts. Chris Mehring, Javik Blake et al have years of context on these guys and could make these late innings a lot of fun.

I also like Luis Lara a lot, having watched and talked to him regularly during his time with the Timber Rattlers. Learning that Murphy loves him, however, made me laugh out loud. One could say he's on Murph's Short List.

Re: the Yankees retiring Sabathia's number